Author: Dickens, Charles [1812 - 1870]
Title: DOMBEY And SON
Description: London: Bradbury & Evans, 1858. 1st Cheap edition (in volume form). Original green blindstamped cloth with elaborate gilt-decorated spine. 524 pp. Text double column. Frontispiece. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 5". Slight lean. Spine panel sunned. Old repair to top 1" of rear joint. Lacks ffep, with old brown tape reinforcement to hinge. A Gd+ copy. The "Cheap" edition the first systematic reissuance of Dickens' works and begun in 1847, with Pickwick Papers, in weekly, monthly & volume formats. The edition characterised by the double column format, illustrated solely with a frontispiece, and contains a new preface by Dickens written expressly for this edition.

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